Stories and Pictures
by
Isaac Loeb Perez (Isaac Leib Peretz)

translated from the Yiddish by
Helena Frank

published 1906
by The Jewish Publication Society of America

CONTENTS
- Preface
I. If Not Higher
II. Domestic Happiness
III. In the Post-Chaise
IV. The New Tune
V. Married
VI. The Seventh Candle of Blessing
VII. The Widow
VIII. The Messenger
IX. What id the Soul?
X. In Time of Pestilence
XI. Bontzye Shweig
XII. The Dead Town
XIII. The Days of the Messiah
XIV. Kabbalists
XV. Travel-Pictures
 - Preface
 - Trust
 - Only Go!
 - What Should a Jewess Need?
 - No. 42
 - The Maskil
 - The Rabbi of Tishewitz
 - Tales that are Told
 - A Little Boy
 - The Yartseff Rabbi
 - Lyashtzof
 - The First Attempt
 - The Second Attempt
 - At the Shochet's
 - The Rebbitzin of Skul
 - Insured
 - The Fire
 - The Emigrant
 - The Madman
 - Misery
 - The Lamed Wofnik
 - The Informer
XVI. The Outcast
XVII. A Chat
XVIII. The Pike
XIX. The Fast
XX. The Woman Mistress Hannah
XXI. In the Pond
XXII. The Chanukah Light
XXIII. The Poor Little Boy
XXIV. Underground
XXV. Between Two Mountains
XXVI. The Image
 - Glossary

Isaac Leib Peretz (1852 – 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz was a Yiddish language author and playwright from Poland. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._L._Peretz

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